Event-related potential (ERP) Studies of Autism

Howard Ring, Mark Johnson, Simon Baron-Cohen

We are testing basic aspects of perception, such as face processing, temporal binding, change detection (in vision and hearing), and sequencing, whilst measuring event related potentials (ERP).

Child-friendly ERP measurement takes place at Birkbeck College London under the direction of our collaborator Mark Johnson, many as part of the Baby Sibs (BASIS) network, whilst adult ERPs are measured in the ARC in Cambridge.

References

461: O. Churches, S. Wheelwright, S. Baron-Cohen, H. Ring (2010)
The N170 is not modulated by attention in autism spectrum conditions.
Neuroreport 21(6), 399-403

430: O. Churches, S. Baron-Cohen, H. Ring (2009)
Seeing facelike objects: An event-related potential study
NeuroReport

383: S. Grice, H. Halit, T. Farroni, S. Baron-Cohen, P. Bolton and M. Johnson (2005)
Neural Correlates of Eye-Gaze Detection in Young Children with Autism
Cortex 2005(41):342-353

356: M. Gomot, M. Giardi, J. Adrien, C. Barthelemy and N. Bruneau (2002)
Hypersensitivity to acoustic change in children with autism: Electrophysiological evidence of left frontal cortex dysfunctioning
Psychophysiology 39:577-584